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The Motorola Dext resurrects the slide-out Qwerty keyboard, which we haven't seen since the T-Mobile G1. But can it resurrect the fortunes of the once-great Motorola?

It's all a blur

Moto has built its own flavour of Android by adding its own user interface tweaks, which it calls Motoblur. The focus is squarely on social networking, with plenty of popular sites such as Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter integrated into the address book, the messaging application and widgets on the home screens. Motorola says it's worked with Orange, which has an exclusive on the phone, to make data transfer as efficient as possible to improve battery life, which is often terrible on Android phones.

Good from afar, but far from good

It's handy to have the option of a physical Qwerty keyboard, but it does make the Dext a little chunkier than its sleeker Android rivals, and we think that its looks are on the boring side. Also, this is Motorola's first Android phone, and it says it has more in the works -- and with Moto's history of great-looking phones like the Razr, it may be worth waiting for its second attempt.

We look forward to putting Motorola's claims to the test when we do a full review soon, but in the meantime check out our hands-on photos and video of the Dext.

Next up it's Samsung's OLED effort, the Samsung Galaxy.